This Past Week's Guests

• CONNIE LANSBERG, a jazz singer, songwriter, author, and practitioner of soul realignment from Melbourne, Australia, joined us to discuss her approach to her art, her tremendous levels of success, and how she implements soul realignment to assist others. 
  
  ​FROM HER WEBSITE:

"Many singers profess to be natural storytellers, but few can claim to be published authors too.  Jazz singer Connie Lansberg showcases these two areas of her creative output with the release of the album Tsera’s Gift, alongside a novel of the same name. (BHC Press) The record is an infectious and lilting collection of songs, performed by some of Melbourne’s leading musicians. ​
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A longstanding fixture on the Australian jazz scene, Connie’s songs - at various points evoking Blossom Dearie, Madeleine Peyroux, and Carol King - brim with elegantly expressive melodies, and poetic lyrics.​
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As an author, she loves the long-form, but as a songwriter, she finds it thrilling, to sum up, the difficult, the wonderful, the terrifying, and exhilarating feeling of falling in or out of love in 4-minute soliloquies accompanied by talented musicians. She also believes we create our own reality and that belief is the driving force behind all her work."
www.connielansberg.com

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• DR. MARC NOTARI, a retired physician and podiatrist from New Jersey, and now an author living in Texas, will join us to discuss his latest release, "A Sailor in the Sargasso Sea".
  
  ABOUT HIS BOOK:
  "When the summer of 1968 dawned at the Jersey Shore, Xavier Martorelli was sure of who he was and where he was headed. But that special summer led him to question his Italian Catholic heritage, his strength, and racial and sexual bigotry that he had never before been aware of. However, under the guidance of three kind girls, older and unobtainable, he begins the process of learning to be a man. Thus began his lifelong journey of maturity and growth, while always chasing the truth. 
  
  ​We have all had a bellwether summer at the precipice of adulthood, when we were petrified but awed by the changes occurring to us. This is the story of us, all of us, told in an emotional but whimsical nature through the eyes of a teenage boy and progressing through middle age."
  www.amazon.com/Sailor-Sargasso-Sea-Marc-Notari/dp/1483435431

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ALAN WATERS, an award winning director/designer/producer with work all over the stage, on film, and in music, will join us to discuss his amazing work and career, his podcasting services, and his future plans. 

FROM HIS BIO:
"Alan is an award winning director/designer/producer from Statesboro, GA; now based in South Western Virginia. He went to school at Ogeechee Technical College for Hospitality and Tourism Management, and then Georgia Southern University for Theatre and Performance. 

Alan began his professional career at the Averitt Center for the Arts, and has worked regionally with the Weston Playhouse Theatre Company. ​His Off Broadway credits include work with Abingdon Theatre Company, Bard City, Barrow Street Theater, Classic Stage Company, Fiasco Theater, Keen Company, New World Stages, New York Theatre Barn, Out of the Box Theatrics, Red Bull Theater, Sheen Center, SITI Company, The Cell Theatre, Transport Group, Trusty Sidekick Theatre Company, and The Duke on 42nd. ​​

​Alan is the Managing Artistic Director of DimlyWit Productions, a multimedia production company founded by independent producers for independent producers, for which he produces and designs podcasts, web series, and other virtual productions."
www.dimlywit.com/walanwaters

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